Excerpts from President Eisenhower's foreign policy speech:
The Issue. In the spring of victory [in 1945], the soldiers of the Western Allies met the soldiers of Russia in the center of Europe. They were triumphant comrades in arms. Their peoples shared the joyous prospect of building, in honor of their dead, the only fitting monumentan age of just peace . . . This common purpose lasted an instantand perished ... The amassing of Soviet power alerted free nations to a new danger of aggression ... It instilled in the free nationsand let none doubt thisthe unshakable conviction that, as long as there...
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